Youth baseball: Seacoast 10s slug way to two wins

MADBURY — The Seacoast 10-year-old All-Stars had little trouble in their first two games at the District 7 tournament, hosted by Oyster River.

Steve Craig

MADBURY — The Seacoast 10-year-old All-Stars had little trouble in their first two games at the District 7 tournament, hosted by Oyster River.

In Monday's opener, Seacoast beat Stratham, 31-1, in four innings.

Wednesday night they knocked Dover from the winners' bracket with a 13-1 victory, also wrapped up in four innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

Seacoast advances to Friday's winners' bracket final against Oyster River at 5:15 p.m. A win in that game would advance Seacoast to Sunday's championship game of the double-elimination tournament.

Only the winner of the District 7 tourney advances to the state competition, to begin July 5 in Barrington.

On Wednesday against Dover, which typically fields competitive teams, Joe Allen worked all four innings on the mound, striking out four.

Seacoast jumped in front with a 10-run second inning, with Allen and Zach Fredericks each getting two hits before the inning was over.

Allen started the trouble with a single followed by a Fredericks' double, a two-run single by Hayes Waddell, an RBI single by Kyle Tilley, a walk, an error, a hit-batter, a two-run double by Brady Annis, a two-run single by Allen and a single by Fredericks. Allen and Fredericks ended up coming around for the final two runs.

Seacoast went ahead 13-1 in the top of the fourth with Nic Richards, Waddell and Taig Healy scoring, the latter two on an RBI single from Shay Leno.

In the bottom of the fourth, Annis made a home-run saving catch for the first out. After a fielder's choice, Allen closed the game with a strikeout. Seacoast's outfield, a relative strength compared to some teams a year ago in its run to the 9-year-old state title, also shined in the first inning when Waddell made a catch at the center field fence.

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